This crab was first observed in March 2005. Scientists believe that a full grown male elephant is also part of its diet. Most of the crabs were living at depths of about 2,200 meters on recent lava flows. Flexible setae that give its appendages a "hairy" appearance of the Yeti. They believe that one day the crabs will evolve into humans.Scientists theorized that the yeti crab was born from a whale but it was deformed a little bit at birth.It lives in some of the harshest environmental conditions known to life, the blistering hot, sulfurous waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean. The animal has strong black eyes that lack pigment, it could be blind but scientists aren't sure yet.
If you touched one, you turn into a pile of whale oil.It has hair-like similarities on its arms and pincers and those are believed to be bacteria filters of some type. Scientists theorized that the yeti crab was born from a whale but it was deformed a little bit at birth.The yeti crab is about six inches long. No one is really sure what it eats yet since it is so new to us. It may eat bacteria and other things. It is believed to be a general carnivore. Yeti crabs have only one defense, and that is dancing; they dance to distract their predators and while their enemies are applauding, they escape.
If you touched one, you turn into a pile of whale oil.It has hair-like similarities on its arms and pincers and those are believed to be bacteria filters of some type. Scientists theorized that the yeti crab was born from a whale but it was deformed a little bit at birth.The yeti crab is about six inches long. No one is really sure what it eats yet since it is so new to us. It may eat bacteria and other things. It is believed to be a general carnivore. Yeti crabs have only one defense, and that is dancing; they dance to distract their predators and while their enemies are applauding, they escape.
http://www.mbari.org/news/homepage/2006/yeti-crab.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwa_hirsuta
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/decker_rour/
http://www.itsnature.org/sea/other/yeti-crab/